You can get all sorts of fabulous kids fancy dress outfits for all ages, from babies to teenagers. You can get loads of costumes that are the same as adult costumes but obviously in smaller sizes and you can get costumes especially for kids, such as their favourite nursery rhyme characters.
For little girls there are some really popular costumes such as fairies and princesses, and for little boys some popular themes are pirates and superheroes. You can also get kids animal costumes, cartoon characters, fairytale characters, clowns and cowboys, to name just a few.
A really popular theme for kids fancy dress at the moment is High School Musical, although this probably more popular with little girls than boys. You can make your own costume for your child or you can get some fabulous cheerleader costumes, complete with pom poms. You can get officially licensed Disney High School Musical costumes as well as non-official, but brilliant looking, High School Musical costumes.
Pirates are another really popular theme for fancy dress for kids, perhaps following the success of the Pirates of The Caribbean films. Again you can create a costume for your kids or buy complete, ready-to-wear costumes for both boys and girls. You can get great accessories for pirate outfits including eye patches, plastic swords, arm hooks, hats, wigs, bandanas and pistols.
If you are on a tight budget you can make your own costume and then just add one or two accessories (all of which you can buy online). If you’d rather just buy a complete costume you can get all sorts of different pirates, from Pirates of the Caribbean to Captain Hook of Peter Pan.
Peter Pan is a popular choice of theme as well, as little girls love to dress up as Tinkerbell and there are some beautiful Tinkerbell costumes available to buy, that most little girls won’t want to take off. You can create your own with a pretty dress or a tutu and a set of pretty wings, a wand and some ballet pumps for a really magical costume. In fact little girls, and not so little girls too, like to dress up as any fairies, pixies or angels and these are all costumes that you can create using a bit of imagination.
If you are short of time and want to buy one ready-to-wear there are some gorgeous kids costumes and fairy wings available fairly cheaply. Sticking with the Peter Pan theme little boys can dress up as Captain Hook or Peter Pan himself. You can get complete Peter Pan costumes or they are relatively easy to make if you are any good with a pair of scissors and a sewing machine.
Some nursery rhyme fancy dress ideas for kids include Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Rapunzel, Aladdin, Robin Hood and The Grand Old Duke of York. Some cartoon character ideas include The Little Mermaid, The Flintstones, Shrek, Loony Tunes, Power Rangers and comic book superheroes.
You can get some fabulous superheroes costumes for little boys such as Spiderman, Captain America, The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Wolverine, Superman, Batman, Robin and the Joker. Little girls can dress up as Wonderwoman, Supergirl or Batgirl.
Superhero costumes are a bit harder to make yourself so they could be a slightly more expensive option but the costumes you can buy look so fabulous that it’s probably worth it. You can even get cute little superhero costumes for toddlers and babies.
There are just hundreds of ideas for kids fancy dress so it’s impossible to cover them all but you should be able to find something suitable for any age and any theme.